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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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PyARC Status Update: Recent Enhancements to a User-Friendly Open-Source Reactor Physics Framework for Fast Reactor Design and Analysis
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Shikhar Kumar (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
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Depletion Benchmark Analysis on a Lead Fast Reactor Using PyARC/OpenMC
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Alex Levinsky (LANL)
Threading Efforts on DIF3D-VARIANT
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL)
A Bowing Reactivity Worth Capability Available in PERSENT
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Zero Power Reactor Database Hosted at Argonne National Laboratory
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL), Richard M. Lell (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL)